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A tall and long serpent dragon in the sky. It is stretching from the earth up into the heavens, of course since it is a dragon it leaves a path of destruction wherever it goes. For this reason it can’t stay in any given place for very long. Its in love with itself and it perceives that it has ultimate power, given to boasting and high mindedness.

I made this fluffy white dragon last summer and was inspired to name it after Ken Sugimori, he designed and drew all of the original 151 Pokémon himself!

I have always really liked how he drew pokemon and I still have many of the trading cards with his art. My favorite!

So now that you have been introduced, here are my drawings:

Sugimori, the dragon, is a mythical cloud dragon who is seen as a mist by humans. He “eats” moisture from the air through his fur and flies around humming to himself, never opening his mouth… because he doesn’t really have one.

He is clearly in a hurry, floating off to someplace.

Here he is resting on a mountain and valley, while at the same time he absorbs the mist from a nearby river. So sleepy. Of course to us humans, he would only appear to be morning fog.

One of my Inktober drawings, yay! I want to do a drawing per day again in October this year but I’m not the most consistent person on Earth. We will see what happens : )

Ah, memories!

Its shocking how fast time has passed since I’ve been blogging. I started sometime in 2012 with no idea what I would blog about, besides cats and maybe drawings.

Nice Guy is now an old man cat, at 11 years old! He is still as handsome as ever though.

I didn’t know if I could keep blogging over such a course of time, for lack of anything interesting to write about. Good thing life is always throwing different things at me to keep things interesting!

Whew, all this blogging stuff has got Kyoko tired out. (he is now 4 years old, by the way.)

Lisa strikes a pose, who knows how old she is since we adopted her as an adult?

Thats all I have for this post, hope it was enjoyable… If anyone wants to share what they think my best post so far was and why, I’d enjoy some feedback : )

I was going to make this dragon on all fours, more like a serpent, but my canvas was already big enough and I don’t like huge file sizes so… I made him like a retired grand-dragon. Complete with clenched fist and a sign to keep the young-uns at bay while he relaxes.

Lisa is playing with my stuffed sea serpent puppet when all of a sudden she notices that everybody is watching her! My daughter even does a cute voice for her while she is in “tongue stuck out funny face” awe.

Maybe she heard us talking about Bub the cat and was trying to steal his signature look and fame? Naaah.

Here is my Inktober drawing for today, it is the puppet stuffed animal that lisa was chewing on! Don’t worry he isn’t hurt/ripped/punctured. Anyhow I always thought this little guy was goofy looking and very cute at the same time. It was a gift from my mom 😀

This was a really long project for me to make. I’ve made origami dragons many many times, but never this big.

I taped a whole bunch of spam newspapers that I constantly get in the mail to create a HUGE origami sheet. Sorry about some of the pictures being blurry.

Here is a step by step picture guide on how I folded my origami dragon:

Step 1

STARE AT THE PAPER REAL HARD. Let it know who’s boss.

(Some of these steps are pretty frustrating for beginner origami artists.)

Step 2: Fold diagonally.

These first steps are to establish good strong creases that will help you fold the following steps easier.Step 3: Unfold then fold diagonally in the opposite direction.Step 4: Unfold then Flip your square over.

Step 5: Fold the square in half like a book.

Step 6: Fold the square in half like a tent.Step 7: Unfold and return to the diagonal fold.

Step 8: Turn the paper so that the bottom right point in the picture above is now the bottom left corner in the picture below.

Open the triangle while keeping the left edge closed and lined up with the other side of the paper.

Step 10: Fold the bottom edge from the picture above to the position shown below to meet the left edge.Step 11: Turn the paper so that the left edge from the previous picture is now the bottom edge in the next picture.

Make your creases well in the inner layer.Step 12: Place the top layer down, making sure to line it up with the bottom edge.

Now you have a funny square shape with a pointy triangle on top.Step 13: Turn the shape so that the bottom right corner shown above will be pointing at you as shown in the next picture.

Peek inside and see your previously folded triangle on the left. You want to make the same shape on the right side. Step 14: Ok now close the shape, enough peeking. These are the same folds (except mirrored) as in steps 8 – 11

Open the pointy triangle side while keeping the square part closed.

Then you grab the corner that formed the point. (its the part with the makeup lady.)

Step 15: Put that corner face down to meet the corner which is shown as bottom right corner.

If you did it right you should have this shark fin shape, which you will crease into a triangle.

Step 16: Fold that shark fin triangle down to the right. Now you have a simple looking square.IMPORTANT! :

Open your square and make sure that the two triangle shapes inside are separate from each other, meaning that there should be a gap between them as shown in the image below.

Its a simple thing to mess up on and will cause you to have to start all over if they are connected.

Just make sure you can wiggle the triangle like it is a giant cobra fang. (Psh, like we would ever REALLY do that?!)Step 17: These next steps will make the wings.

Now fold the top layer’s right side inward to the center line, making a tall triangle.Step 18: Fold the top layer’s left side to make a mirror image of the triangle you just made.Step 19: Notice how in the image above there is a triangle on top of the two folded triangles?

Fold that triangle downward and make a very solid crease. Then return it to its original position.

Step 20: Now unfold the two triangles on the left and right.

open them up and notice how the space in between those two folds creates yet another triangle.

Step 21: lift up the triangle and fold it back as shown below.

The sides that look like walls will be folded inward to match the triangle folds you had previously.Like this:Step 22: Now flip it over and repeat the same steps for this side.Step 23: Fold the right side in towards the center line.Step 24: Fold the left side in to mirror the right side.Step 25: Fold down that top triangle again to form a solid crease then unfold to its original position. Step 26: Unfold the two triangles again and grab the inner layer Step 27: Lift it up and fold the two triangles on the left and right back down.It should now look like this:(Sorry about the blurry picture) Step 28: Fold the top layer’s right side inward to meet the center line Step 29: Fold the top layer’s left side inward to mirror the right side. Step 30: Flip it over and repeat step 28 and 29. Step 31: Fold the right side inward to the center line Step 32: Fold the left side inward to mirror the right.

Now you have a tall thin diamond shape with a split going from the bottom to the center forming two separate “legs” Step 33: Grab the left “leg” and unfold it then refold in the opposite direction. It should look something like this depending on the angle at which you creased it.Step 34: Do the same to the right “leg” Step 35: reverse fold the right side in the same way.

Leave enough length at the base to resemble a neck, I chose this side to be the head of the dragon. Step 36: fold the right side one last time to make the horn on the top of the dragon’s head It should look similar to this: The final steps are the same reverse fold type over and over until you have as many crimps in the dragon’s tail as you like.And that is that. I hope my instructions weren’t too complicated or unclear for those of you who wanted to make this.What a HUGE DRAGON!!! Since he is made out of newspaper he even flaps his wings when I move him up and down 😀

I’m pretty exhausted in this picture because we are still having pretty warm weather and it took me so very long to make this >_<;